It’s a few weeks now since we visited the book town Wigtown, Scotland’s answer to Hay-on-Wye and I now can’t remember if these photos were all taken in the same bookshop. I think Jack took most of these photos, maybe all of them. And I think they were mainly taken in THE Book Shop.
Anyway, you get the idea, lovely places to rake around in if you’re of a bookish type.
One of the bookshops did have a cat that sauntered out to meet us as we came through the front door, but quickly disappeared, obviously we weren’t of great interest to it – just more of those strange people completely ignoring it to stare at walls full of books.
It’s a remote part of Scotland and if you do decide to travel there don’t expect too much. I was very lucky and bought quite a few of books there but there’s very little else in the town apart from a few cafes and a couple of gift shops. As you can see in the photo below, it’s not exactly bustling.
It looks just the place for me – I like the fact that it’s not exactly bustling, no crowds sounds perfect to me.
Margaret,
It does make a nice change from crowds and queues, although to be honest I thought there would be more bookshops than there were, can’t complain though as I bought several books.
I agree with Margaret. No bustle sounds great! And all those books look great!
Sandra,
It’s just a pity it’s so far away from where we live, and not really close to anything else!
What an interesting place! I’d be willing to go just on the hope of finding some treasures without having to elbow other browsers out of the way first.
Anbolyn,
It’s the perfect place for you then. We were there on a Wednesday and I think it was their half-day closing day!! Yes some towns still do that, and a couple of the shops seemed to have taken the whole day off.